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Sep 24“Witold Gombrowicz’s Theatrophobia: The Playwright and His Double,” a lecture by Allen Kuharski
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Lapinski Family Fund and the Polish Heritage Club of Madison. About the Lecture: Witold Gombrowicz is Poland’s most produced playwright around the world—and more performed abroad than in Poland itself. His first play Ivona, Princess of Burgundia is the most-produced Polish play of all time outside of Poland. Gombrowicz’s theater leads a …
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Oct 1Maxi Obexer, Documentary Radio Play and Discussion: Im Auge des Sturms. Das Kapitol im Januar 2021 (2024)
Probably everyone is familiar with the images of the attack on the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. But what happened inside the building on that day? In her award-winning documentary radio play Im Auge des Sturms, Maxi Obexer shifts the lens away from the mob outside to focus on the lawmakers …
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Oct 5Afropean: Black People and Blackness in Europe
Department of African American Studies Event Page
Panelists and Moderators Michelle Moyd is Red Cedar Distinguished Associate Professor of History at MSU. Her book,Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa, was published by Ohio University Press in 2014. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Radical History Review, International Labor and Working Class History, and Slavery and Abolition. She is currently at …
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Oct 8When Difficulty Motivates (and When It Doesn’t): What Identity-Based Motivation Theory Can Offer to Second Language Acquisition
Please join the Language Institute; the Second Language Acquisition PhD Program; the German Program in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+; and the Language Ideologies and Linguistic Discrimination working group for the second lecture in a series on identity and language learning. RSVP here (not required) Abstract Why do learners who clearly imagine their future …
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Oct 8Hilldale Lecture: Defining Enlightenment: Kant, Mendelssohn, Arendt
What is Enlightenment? In 1783 Berlin monthly Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its readers to submit answers to this question, and both Immanuel Kant and Moses Mendelssohn sent essays to the journal. Their submissions, both published in 1784, offered very different responses. In 1933, shortly after Hitler’s rise to power, Hannah Arendt also reflected on Enlightenment. She would implicitly refer to Kant …
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Oct 12Catastrophic Belatedness (Celan, Darwish, Derrida)
Declarations on the fate of poetry after mass violence—enshrined most notably in Theodor Adorno’s indictment of “poetry after Auschwitz”—have tended to stress poetry’s impotence in the face of representing past destruction. Arriving too late to catastrophe constitutes the primordial belatedness of any poetics of witness. But what happens when we shift the locus of poetry from …
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Oct 13Study and Intern Abroad in Germany & Austria Info Session
Want to learn about options for studying German language abroad? Don’t know German but interested in studying in Germany or Austria? Join us to learn about study abroad programs and international internships in Germany and Austria and get advice from returned students and advisors – including available scholarships, important deadlines, and more! For questions, please …
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Oct 15Maxi Obexer (trans. Neil Blackadder), “The Daughters of Oresteia” Dramatic Reading (English)
First performed in 458 BCE, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is traditionally viewed as the depiction of a society transitioning from chaotic blood vengeance to structured, democratic justice. Yet this foundational drama of democracy also marks the birth of the tragic hero: Orestes, who slays his mother as commanded, only to be consumed by remorse. Maxi Obexer …
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Oct 16Casting Weimar: Selection, Surplus, and the Film Actor
This presentation tracks modern discourses of human selection as they converged in discussions of film acting in Weimar Germany. In the early years of narrative cinema and beyond, the question of how to select actors for films—the question of casting, in other words—preoccupied filmmakers, actors, critics, and audiences. I trace this question to features of …
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Oct 16Maxi Obexer’s Dramatic Oeuvre: A Conversation with Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder about Translating for Theater
Join us for a reading of select passages of Obexer’s plays in German and English by Maxi Obexer and Neil Blackadder, followed by a conversation about Neil’s translation of Maxi’s plays. About the author: Maxi Obexer is a prominent German-language author and playwright whose work examines language, power, and political imagination. Raised in South Tyrol and thus …
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